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Robert M. Solow

Robert M. Solow

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
88
Citations
86917
World Ranking
181
National Ranking
129

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Presidential Medal of Freedom, United States
  • 1999 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his creation of the modern framework for analyzing the effects of investment and technological progress on economic growth, greatly influencing economics and economic policy worldwide.", Presented by President William Clinton in a White House (East Room) ceremony on Tuesday, March 14, 2000.
  • 1999 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
  • 1987 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for his contributions to the theory of economic growth
  • 1987 - Nobel Prize for his contributions to the theory of economic growth
  • 1980 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 1972 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1970 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1961 - John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association
  • 1957 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1956 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Robert M. Solow was affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their work focused primarily on the field of economics, notably on the theory of economic growth.

Throughout their career, Solow collaborated frequently with several notable co-authors:

  • Kenneth J. Arrow
  • Thomas C. Schelling
  • Richard Swedberg
  • Gary S. Becker
  • James S. Coleman

Solow authored multiple books published by prominent academic presses. These include:

  • Economics and Sociology, published by Princeton University Press in 2020, cited 27 times
  • Lives of the Laureates, published by The MIT Press in 2020, cited 2 times

Their contributions to economics were recognized with numerous awards during their lifetime. These honors encompass:

  • Presidential Medal of Freedom, United States (2014)
  • Member of the Royal Irish Academy (1999)
  • US President's National Medal of Science (1999) - awarded "For his creation of the modern framework for analyzing the effects of investment and technological progress on economic growth, greatly influencing economics and economic policy worldwide," presented by President William Clinton in 2000
  • Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics (1987) for contributions to the theory of economic growth
  • Nobel Prize (1987), same citation
  • Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (1980)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1972)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1970)
  • John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association (1961)
  • Fellows of the Econometric Society (1957)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1956)

Best Publications

  • A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth

    Robert M. Solow

  • TECHNICAL CHANGE AND THE AGGREGATE PRODUCTION FUNCTION

    Robert M. Solow

  • Capital-labor substitution and economic efficiency

    Kenneth Joseph Arrow;Hollis B. Chenery;Bagicha S. Minhas;Robert M. Solow

  • Linear Programming and Economic Analysis

    Robert Dorfman;Paul Anthony Samuelson;Robert M. Solow

  • Intergenerational equity and exhaustible resources

    Robert M. Solow

  • Wage Bargaining and Employment

    Ian M McDonald;Robert M Solow

  • The Economics of Resources or the Resources of Economics

    Robert M. Solow

  • We’d better watch out

    Robert M. Solow

  • On the Intergenerational Allocation of Natural Resources

    Robert M. Solow

  • Growth Theory: An Exposition

    Robert M. Solow

  • Mathematical Theories of Economic Growth

    Edwin Burmeister;Rodney Dobell;Robert M. Solow;Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • Another possible source of wage stickiness

    Robert M. Solow

  • Perspectives on Growth Theory

    Robert M. Solow

  • Does fiscal policy matter

    Alan Stuart Blinder;Robert M. Solow

  • An almost practical step toward sustainability

    Robert M. Solow

  • A critical essay on modern macroeconomic theory

    Frank H. Hahn;Robert M. Solow

  • Foundations of the Goldilocks Economy: Supply Shocks and the Time-Varying NAIRU

    Robert J Gordon

  • Growth Theory and After

    Robert M Solow

  • Extraction Costs in the Theory of Exhaustible Resources

    Robert M. Solow;Frederic Y. Wan

  • Statistical Inference in Dynamic Economic Models

    Unknown

  • Report of the NOOA Panel on Contingent Valuation

    Kenneth Arrow;K Arrow;R. Solow;PR Portney

  • Intergenerational Equity and Exhaustable Resources

    Robert Solow

  • Linear Programming and Economic Analysis.

    R. Dorfman;P. A. Samuelson;R. M. Solow

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Gordon
Robert J. Gordon Northwestern University
Donald N. McCloskey
Donald N. McCloskey University of Illinois at Chicago
Kenneth J. Arrow
Kenneth J. Arrow Stanford University
Alan S. Blinder
Alan S. Blinder Princeton University
Dennis J. Snower
Dennis J. Snower Kiel Institute for the World Economy
William D. Nordhaus
William D. Nordhaus Yale University
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
Martin Feldstein
Martin Feldstein Harvard University

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